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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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Personal Development

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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Personal Development

"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."
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Personal Development

"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."
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"Honest labor bears a lovely face."
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"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."
People

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
Man

"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town."
Joy

"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."
Life

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."
God

"After each war there is a little less democracy to save."
War

"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."
Life

"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."
Labor

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
Age
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